Monday, August 3, 2015

Summer Road Trip

Austin was in charge of his mission reunion this summer. We picked a date a year ago and then Jill qualified for Canadian high school rodeo finals which was the same day.  So Austin, Hanna, Lucy and Carly left on Friday. 

The reunion was a success even though there wasn't quite as many missionaries as he had hoped. They had it in Huntsville, Utah with President Marlin and Kathy Jensen.

Jill and I  left Cardston at 7 pm on Saturday and got to Idaho Falls at 2:30 am. We slept until 6 am and left at 7 am to go to Bennington, Idaho to listen to Kade Pitchford's mission homecoming talk.  He gave an awesome talk. He served in Oaxaca, Mexico. He wore out his shoes in the service of God. He is definitely the kind of young man you hope your daughters will marry. 



We stayed over night with the Pitchfords. We visited, ate fresh raspberries, Carly played a dozen games of pool, and team roped in the morning. 

We did some successful school clothes shopping in Logan. We enjoyed pizza and ice cream cones with Steve and Karma Albiston.  Steve turned 80 this year and in a couple weeks they are going to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.


Jill and Hanna took a campus tour of Utah State University. 


Austin and I did our own tour with Lucy and Carly. We relived some of our Aggie moments! 
There is a story that on our second date we were walking around campus and we were standing by a bike rack talking. I put my hand down and Austin's hand was there and I didn't move mine and so we start holding hands for the first time. Austin likes to tell people that I was the mover in the relationship.


After Logan we went to Salt Lake, and we stopped to see Austin's cousin Bobby Depoe at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. He is fighting liver cancer and it's not going well. He was flying home the next day after we were there. He had on a Do Not Resuscitate  band. It was humbling and puts life in perspective.

The last stop of our trip was visiting Doug, Rachelle, Jeanette and Diana. We stay with Doug and Emily in their new house in Cedar Hills. It is an awesome house. We are so happy for them. We still pray every day that they will get a baby. 

Austin I went with Jill and Hanna on the campus tour of Utah Valley University in Orem. It was impressive. It would be fun to go to school there.

Then our girls went to see Hailey Bennett in The Little Mermaid play. Austin I went to the court to be there when Rachelle and Nathan adopted Brooklyn (which I wrote about in another blog post)!

We had a fun celebration that night! 


Grandpa Reeve even came for a few minutes.


Diana has a special place in heaven for all that she's done to care for Grandpa Reeve.




W liked to give Hailey a bad time about her new driving skills.

Now that all the adventures were over, we had to drive home. We drove all the way from Cedar Hills to Cardston. It was a long day. Especially because we had to take two cars back. Jill and I spent a lot of time together in the car. We bonded!

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Jill at Canadian High School Finals Rodeo

Nanton, Alberta
Canadian High School Finals Rodeo
July 23-25, 2015

Jill Nunn, goat tying contestant



1st Round:  8.5 seconds  8th place
2nd Round: 7.8 seconds 2nd place
3rd Round: 9.5 seconds 
(Let's go. Why did I take so long getting off? My groundwork was so fast because I was mad I was late to the goat. I need to goat tie again right now. Can I bring my goat dummy on the trip? I could have done better.)

Overall 7th place in Canada!!










Jill and I then left Nanton at 5 pm, met Grandpa and Grandma in town to switch cars, and drove to Idaho Falls. We got there at 2:35 AM. We sang and sang and sang - but only to fast signs nothing slow.  





Sunday, July 19, 2015

Jill Nunn Photography

Jill took some great senior pictures this year. Here are some of our friends/cousins/young women:


 Bailey Cahoon



 Kaela Lee


 Cassidy Pilling


 Lindy Bevans


Challis Olsen & Lindy Bevans

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Girls Camp

Leavitt Girls Camp 2015 - Gold Springs Campground near Milk River, Alberta






Friday, July 10, 2015

Kids!

Carly had a drive-in movie at school.

Carly and Skye Schaffer at their track meet.


Lucy, Carly and I went on an adventure to Glacier National Park.



Austin and our girls and the Lees went on a hike in Waterton National Park.





Julia is modeling Grandma Nunn's wedding dress.